About crackhead gamers

It kinda dawned on me that gamers these days are like crackheads: they go around blindly at a fast pace,  babbling silly oneliners on a mike, always on the lookout for the next game/dlc/stone/level/coin/headshot/pokemon/trophy or whatever and don't even realize they got into this automate, proud-slave-of-the-month routine in the first place for the promise of uncompromised fun and the simple joy of exploring a virtual world.  Some ought to be reminded of that from time to time.  There's nothing more embarassingly silly than seeing the industry pour tons of money into creating lush, large virtual open worlds with hollywood-grade artistry in every corner and texture only for the players to completely ignore all of that once they begin hunting down each other in their glorified online paintball.

Crackheads shouldn't be a trouble to non-crackhead gamers, right?  There are plenty of games catering for everyone's tastes nowadays, right?  Well, in reality, the industry not only caters for the cracksters as it also thrives on them: what could be more profitable than the millions of addicts always on the lookout for the next yearly rehash of a thematic paintball with millions of bandwidth lost on free marketing on youtube?  Only the next hit low-budget trash "free" mobile game with tons of microtransactions.

Anyway, there are indeed games for everyone, crackhead or not.  But the force is undeniably with the former.  And it really pisses me off when that kind of power is such that developers feel tempted to take a real classic such as FFVII and ruin it catering for their fucked up tastes, like moving battles from turn-based wits combat to dumbed down button-mashing or inserting some pointlessly bogus online component so that people can roam around dressed like digital pointy-eared peasants and live on while some oldschool single player heroes try to save that world from an impending doom that shall never happen nor menace anyone.

So contradictory trying to please real gamers, delirious crackheads and anxious investors...